Wayne Allyn Root was the 2008 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee and he is the 2012 Libertarian Presidential frontrunner. WAR is a self-made businessman, capitalist evangelist, national spokesman for several companies in the financial world, as well as an author, business speaker and television and radio personality and producer. His talk radio show airs in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. He began his career as an anchorman for the Financial News Network (now CNBC). His most recent book is Conscience of a Libertarian.